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Accidents
33) 0309 cat. 0007-05-WABI
Simulated Plane Crash Fire
Bangor ? : Scenes from a simulated plane crash fire as fire fighters try to get it under control. Night. Scenes of planes taxiing on runway. Ref. 300.
22) 0310 cat.1002-10-WABI-59
Dow Air Fair
Bangor: Mock helicopter rescue including pickup of pilot from crashed airplane and firetruck with water gun.
30) 0311 cat. 1002-14-WABI-59
Damaged Plane Dow Air Force Base
Nighttime shots of damaged airplane from various angles.
23) 0312 cat. 1003-03-WABI-59
Hermon Accident
Hermon: Accident scene including car with front end smashed in.
26) 0313 cat. 0009-05-WABI-59
Interview at Dow Air Force Base
Bangor : Interview with two Air Force men about their surviving a midair collision and being in the Maine woods before help could arrive. Questions about their careers, the acci...
6) 0314 cat.1004-02-WABI-59
Interview with Crash Survivor
Lieutenant Johnson has apparently just survived an airplane crash. He is interviewed at a table.
30) 0315 cat.0010-05-WABI
Car Accident
Car accident. Shots include several angles of damaged car, and road and traffic from point of view of driver.
8) 0318 cat.0013-02-WABI
Car Accident
Car accident. Shots of car and crowd.
10) 0318 cat.0013-05-WABI-58
Train Derailment North Maine
Northern Maine: Train derailment. Shots of engine off track, engineers surveying damage, damage, train pulled back onto track.
10) 0323 cat. 0017-13-WABI-60
Accident at State Street
Bangor : Minor accident. Shots of cars and damage.
11) 0324 cat. 0017-07-WABI-60
Accident
Car and bus collision at Hudson intersection. Shots of damaged vehicles, accident scene.
16) 0324 cat. 0017-08-WABI-60
Tractor Accident at Auditorium
Bangor : a farm tractor is flipped back into position by a wrecker in front of the civic auditorium.
13) 0334 cat. 0024-13-WABI-62
Gas Main
Damaged gas main. Police directing traffic around it, men working on it, spectators.
11) 0335 cat. 0025-05-WABI-61
Racing at Bangor Fair
Horse and buggy race including an accident.
15) 0337 cat. 0023-04-WABI-61
101 B Crash
Recovery of crashed 101 Bomber. Shots of search party, crash site, forest, wreckage.
21) 0338 cat. 1009-13-WABI-61
Plane Crash at Dedham
Dedham: 101 bomber crash including sections of airplane and trees scattered on ground, path gouged into woods, people standing around, an official speaking.
17) 0339 cat. 0026-06-WABI-61
Plane Crash at Dow
Crash at Air Force Base with plane stranded on train tracks.
18) 0342 cat. 0031-09-WABI-61
Three Truck Accident
Accident includes 18-wheel semi, gas or oil truck and third truck. CUs of damage.
19) 0343 cat. 0029-02-WABI-61
Drowning at Brewer Lake
Penobscot Sheriffs Department searches for drowning victim. Sheriffs in boat and planes.
20) 0343 cat. 0029-05-WABI-61
Belfast Car Accident
Belfast: Car damaged in accident.
31) 0343 cat. 0029-09-WABI-61
Train Hits Car
Driver hit by train is fatally injured. Shots of car, train.
26) 0343 cat. 0029-12-WABI-61
Lucerne Accident
Crowd looks at car's front end damage.
23) 0344 cat. 0027-16-WABI-61
Holden Accident
Interviews with spectators gathered around overturned car. Ambulance arrives and police direct traffic.
24) 0345 cat. 0031-11-WABI-61
Auto Accident
Car and truck collision including CUs of damage.
13) 0345 cat. 0031-13-WABI-62
Auto Accident on Main Street
LSs and MSs of one damaged car and a police officer at accident scene.
26) 0345 cat. 0031-14-WABI-62
Train and Car Collision at Veazie
Collision scene shots include damaged car, railroad tracks, police officer.
21) 0345 cat. 0032-06-WABI
Auto Accident
Accident scene includes car in embankment.
3) 0350 cat. 0032-11-WABI-61
Car in Kenduskeag Stream
Accident scene including pulling car out of water, men in boat by car, bridge, spectators.
29) 0350 cat. 0032-17-WABI-61
Truck Accident in Belfast
Belfast: Wrecker attempting to restore overturned Avis Truck to upright position.
30) 0350 cat. 0032-23-WABI-61
Plane Crash in Albion
Small single engine plane crash in Albion including damaged plane, helicopter standing by, Federal Aeronautics Commission inspection, warning to people not to touch wreckage.
31) 0353 cat. 1020-18-WABI-62
Accident in Veazie
Veazie: Accident scene including car upside down in embankment, car being restored to upright position, police, spectators.
36) 0354 cat. 0047-14-WABI-62
Plane Search
Helicopter, boat and ground crews search for plane downed in water.
33) 0354 cat. 1020-21-WABI-62
Accident in Brewer
Accident scene including two damaged cars, and sign saying, 'Seat Belts installed $5.95.'
6) 0355 cat. 0048-06-WABI-62
Auto Accident
Scenes from multi-car accident including officer opening car door to show damage, wrecker about to pull car away.
35) 0355 cat. 1021-20-WABI-62
Four Cars in Accident
Accident scene including victim carried away on a stretcher, damaged cars.
24) 0356 cat. 0048-17-WABI-62
Plane Crash in Mt. Waldo
Mt. Waldo: Plane crash scenes include mountain, police car, wreckage, damaged foliage, helicopter picking up a man and lowering something to police officer.
25) 0360 cat. 0050-06-WABI-62
Power Shovel Accident
Power shovel riding on truck bed has struck underside of bridge on I-95. Shots include cleaning up the damage, the bridge, the shovel arm, and a man measuring the height of the ...
2) 0360 cat. 0050-07-WABI-62
Train-Car Accident in Bucksport
Collision damage including car's severed front end, car interior, and point of view shot from a car driving through accident site over train tracks.
3) 0361 cat. 1021-13-WABI-62
Accident on Broadway
Bangor: Accident scene including a damaged car and telephone.
13) 0362 cat. 0052-07-WABI-62
Accident on Broadway
Bangor: Car has gone off road and snapped telephone pole. LS, MS of damage.
28) 0364 cat. 0051-10-WABI-62
Accident in Veazie
Veazie: Efforts to remove overturned car from embankment including returning car to upright position, police inspecting car, crowd watching.
18) 0371 cat. 0059-04-WABI-62
Accident Trooper Sullivan
Automobile accident in which Trooper Jerry Sullivan may have been in the damaged car. Many views of the damaged car which has hit a guardrail, a door is missing, back of the car...
7) 0371 cat. 0059-08-WABI-62
Tractor in Water
Tractor has slid down an embankment near a small reservoir or pond, various shots. Crowds line a bridge looking down.
33) 0373 cat. 0056-04-WABI-
Car Accident on Main Street
Car accident at corner of N. Main St. and Parkway N. including shots of damaged cars, street signs and spectators.
9) 0374 cat. 1026-06-WABI-62
Accident on Main St.
Scene from two-car accident including a damaged car, cars driving by, and a police officer.
10) 0374 cat. 1026-15-WABI-62
Train Accident in Veazie
Veazie: Accident scene including car damaged by train, tracks, police officer.
27) 0378 cat. 1027-04-WABI-63
B-52 Crash
Airplane crash scene including men going over maps in room, trucks and equipment being prepared, aerial shots of site in woods, airplane parts strewn through woods.
28) 0378 cat. 1027-05-WABI-63
Snowstorm Accident on Route 95
Accident scene including backed up traffic and police officer, snow building up on a car, damaged car, a wrecker hooking up the car and pulling it away.
3) 0380 cat. 0062-12-WABI-63
Accident at Railroad (Connors)
Men talk by railroad cars at accident site.
14) 0380 cat. 1027-10-WABI-63
Accident on Route 95
Scenes from Route 95 where an 18-wheel truck has smashed into something resulting in a crushed front cab. Shots include LS, MS and CU of smashed front end, rear shots of truck, ...
108) 0382 cat. 0072-04-WABI-63
Truck Accident
Overturned truck.
74) 0383 cat. 0064-04
[Disabled Canadian Plane]
Disabled plane completes forced landing at air strip in Millinocket
24) 0383 cat. 0064-09-WABI-63
Plane at Old Town
Old Town: Men restore overturned single engine plane to upright position and tow it back to hangar.
34) 0383 cat. 0067-01-WABI-63
Dow Airman in Fatal Accident
Airman's damaged car after fatal accident, including car interior and exterior.
5) 0395 cat.0065-01
Unity Raceway
Race scenes including cars rolling over and skidding.
24) 0401 cat. 0080-14-WABI-64
Accident
Scenes from accident including towtruck pulling away multiple cars, and shots of their damage.
4) 0402 cat. 0084-06-WABI-64
Accident
Car accident scene including towing of cars, totaled cars, damage.
22) 0402 cat. 0084-13-WABI-64
Accident
Car accident scene including a vehicle that has turned over and hit a route sign, and men looking on.
94) 0404 cat. 0087-17-WABI-64
Accident on 395
Accident scene including Ontario car that hit the guardrail, its bad tire, a police officer examining the guardrail's dent, hooking the car to a wrecker, police talking to car o...
99) 0405 cat. 0089-02-WABI-64
Accident on State St.
Bangor: Accident scene including two damaged cars, police directing traffic.
7) 0405 cat. 0089-04-WABI-64
Fatality at Bradford
Bradford: Accident scene including a car run off the road, with parts scattered.
15) 0405 cat. 0089-12-WABI-64
Fatality in Brewer
Brewer: Fatal accident scene including victim being taken away on stretcher and put in ambulance, a mangled car, and onlookers.
27) 0431 cat. 0039-03-WABI-59
Tanker
Damaged refueling plane footage shot at night.
32) 0431 cat. 0039-12-WABI-60
First Snowstorm
Bangor: First snowstorm of season including a parking meter that has been hit by a car, cars trying to move, pedestrians.
30) 0432 cat. 1041-17-WABI-65
Fatal Accident on Interstate in Newport
Newport: Shots of wrecked Volkswagen Beetle and police inspecting scene.
30) 0432 cat. 1044-04-WABI-65
[Volkswagen Beetle Accident]
Car appears to have been hit by a train. MS and LS of car and LS of train tracks and parked vehicles.
31) 0432 cat. 1046-04-WABI-65
Operation Great Effort, Dow Air Force Base
Bangor: Dow Air Force Base, Operation Great Effort. Drill: fire fighters work on simulated plane crash, an office with men at work, police pulling over a vehicle, a man being ar...
21) 0439 cat. 0095-06-WABI-66
Interstate Highway Accident
Accident scene at which a tractor has rolled down an embankment, and a crowd has gathered.
45) 0439 cat. 1048-03-WABI-66
Dixmont Accident
Dixmont: Accident scene including ambulance crew placing driver on stretcher, smashed vehicle, ambulance removing victim.
23) 0439 cat. 1048-12-WABI-66
Hogan Road Ramp Accident
Bangor: Station wagon going off exit ramp at Hogan Road.
35) 0440 cat. 1048-28-WABI-66
Skidding Accident
Police inspection of accident scene including overturned cars and trucks.
27) 0441.0001
[Day with State Police Trooper in Orono]
Typical day in the life of a Maine State Police officer in Orono that follows a trooper as he makes his routine rounds on the interstate, city streets, and rural dirt roads. Alo...
18) 0449 cat. 1051-08-WABI-67
Two-Car Crash on Route 3
Bangor: Accident scene including two damaged cars and police.
35) 0450 cat. 1055-11-WABI-67
Coldbrooke -- Route 202 Fatalities
Accident scene including police, damaged car and tractor-trailer truck.
22) 0450 cat. 1058-12-WABI-67
Truck Carrier Mishap Causes Traffic Jam in Ellsworth
Telejournal camera shoots from car driving toward Ellsworth. Shots include car carrier skidded off road, blocked traffic.
24) 0450 cat. 1058-14-WABI-67
Two-Car Crash at Boyd and York in Bangor
Bangor: Accident scene including cars with smashed front ends.
90) 0451 cat. 1058-18-WABI-67
[Recovery of Airplane]
Recovery of airplane from water including LS of ship approaching shore, floating debris, helicopter approaching, crowd on shore.
33) 0451 cat. 1058-19-WABI-67
[Recovery of Airplane -- part 2]
Small group of people waits as ship docks carrying airplane debris.
7) 0453 cat. 1061-15-WABI-67
Car Accident on Exchange Street (3 car)
Car accident scene. Shots of cars with dents and bashes. People standing around looking at cars. Shot of broken lamp-post on ground near cars.
8) 0453 cat. 1062-03-WABI-67
Veazie Accident
Cars driving by with tow truck in background. Skid marks in grass. Dented tree shot. Tow truck hauls off very dented car. Close-up of mashed car. Detailed examination of dented ...
21) 0453 cat. 1062-18-WABI-67
Newport Plane Accident
Two large objects with steering mechanisms in water. Truck with 'Haley Construction' sign from Guilford, Maine. Crane pulling upside-down seaplane. Plane lowered onto boat ramp....
10) 0453 cat. 1063-08-WABI-67
Car-Truck Accident in Winterport
Pilings, dirt and cables down on side of road. Shot of rear axle of truck in yard next to house. Rest of truck near road. Full shot of rear axle behind bush.
27) 0453 cat. 1063-24-WABI-67
Corvair Flips Guard Rail at Hermon Exit
Car over guardrail with towtruck. Towtruck driver attaches car to truck.
12) 0455 cat. 1070-20-WABI-67
Four Vehicles Pile Up in I-95
State trooper with two men at police car. Side of highway with truck in ditch and car on side of road. Officer directing traffic. Chair and hubcap. Trailers with cars driving by...
9) 0456 cat. 1072-15-WABI-67
New Police Accident Forms
Man in police uniform with pile of folders on table near him. Passing out folders to two police officers and two men in street clothes. Several men filling out forms. State poli...
19) 0457 cat. 1073-03-WABI-67
Two-Car Crash Hospitalizes Three
Bent stop sign. Accident wreckage. Police officer. Smashed windshield. Car interior.
34) 0559 cat. 1018-05-WABI-61
[Rocket Launch]
Rocket launch including preparation for blastoff, MS of blastoff, LS of explosion, MS and LS of capsule and chute descending into hills.
15) 0571 cat. 0041-03-WABI-60
Truck Accident
Effort to return Harris industry Co. truck to upright position includes shots of guard rail, road, embankment, crowd, traffic.
32) 0571 cat. 0043-03-WABI-60
Truck Accident
Truck has run into building, destroying its front steps and roof.
19) 0729.0061
[Miscellaneous Outtake Footage]
Item consists of miscellaneous assortment of scraps/outtake footage, all are very brief segments. Box of lobsters being loaded onto airplane (1964 date code). People boarding NE...
20) 0752.0020
Warner Pathe News: Volume 3, Number 9
Warner Pathe classroom newsreel series. This Volume/Number contains: 'Prisoner of War Exchange'; 'The Death of Queen Mary'; 'Plane Crash Rescue'; 'The Korean War'; 'Atomic Energ...
20) 0752.0055
Warner Pathe News: Volume 7, Number 6
Warner Pathe classroom newsreel series. This Volume/Number contains: 'The Inauguration!'; 'Ike Visits Dust Bowl'; 'Great Cal. Brush Fire'; 'Inside the Gaza Strip'; 'Open Longest...
21) 0752.0056
Warner Pathe News: Volume 7, Number 7
Warner Pathe classroom newsreel series. This Volume/Number contains: 'The Middle East Question'; 'Two Strange Mid-East Lands'; 'Floods Hit Southern States'; 'Prospecting By Heli...
19) 0752.0058
Warner Pathe News: Volume 7, Number 9
Warner Pathe classroom newsreel series. This Volume/Number contains: 'The Middle East'; 'Queen Elizabeth Visits France'; 'First Films of the Earth Satellite'; '100,000 Starlings...
23) 0752.PC62
Warner Pathe News: Volume 8, Number 4
Warner Pathe classroom newsreel series. This Volume/Number contains: 'Opening the Era of Outer Space'; 'Jamestown: A Colony Reborn'; 'A Sculptor of Trees'; 'A Sculptor of Animal...
18) 0813.0279
Overturned Car on Route 88 in Yarmouth
News story dated 10-25-58. Original label says STOCK: ACCIDENTS.
25) 0813.0658
[Winter Car Accident]
Car accident in snowstorm, bus off road, cars covered in snow driving on road. Tractor plowing snow on sidewalk. Boy riding bicycle through snow.
16) 0813.0669
[Winter Accident]
Ambulance and tow truck at site of automobile accident on snowy road.
27) 0813.0681
[Winter Highway Accident]
Water damage and emulsion scratches. // Footage of snowy highway, car accident, cars driving through snow on messy streets.
28) 0853.0031
[Snowstorm on Turnpike]
Footage from interior of car driving in snowstorm on the Maine Turnpike, cars off road, accidents, ambulances, tow truck. Car goes through several toll booths. // Item from can ...
67) 0853.0038
[Cook's Corner Accident]
Wrecked car on tow truck at Cook's Corner shopping center in Brunswick, police officer talking to train conductor on tracks beside train. // Item from can 221, labeled 01/07/197...
30) 0869.0049
[Wallace Cunningham--home movies] Reel 49
1949, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1961 edge codes on film. // Label on film: 'CP wreck, Brownville Junction, bowling alley lumber toppled over 42 cars off. Gold medal flour, shortening, M...
31) 1108.0058
[Archie Stewart--purchased film] Reel 058
Reel 58: Archie Stewart can notes: Sound. The Hindenburg disaster. Pathe newsreel 1937. Screening notes: Music, Intertitle' 'The Airship Hindenburg. A Pathegrams Release edited...
3) 1140.0375
[Automobile Accident]
Maine State Police troopers stand beside police cars at site of single car accident. Totaled automobile in ditch beside road.
12) 1140.0462
[Car Hit by Train]
Report on car accident. Automobile struck on Route 1A by Maine Central Railroad train. Footage of wrecked car.
36) 1140.0594
[Automobile Accident]
Accident scene on road with long tire skid marks on pavement. Wrecked Volkswagen Beetle beside road.
14) 1140.3382
[Motorcycle Accident]
Motorcycle wreckage in woods.
100) 1140.3416
[Automobile Accident & New Brewer Rescue Equipment]
Police and emergency workers inspect wreckage of automobile beside road. Driver apparently still in car. Horrifying scream. Footage of heavy duty ambulance/rescue vehicle. Inter...
6) 1191 cat. 1078-20-WABI-67
Frankfort Youth Dies In Route 202 Crash
No description available
23) 1191 cat. 1078-24-WABI-67
Hampden Chicken Truck Catastrophe
No description available
22) 1191 cat. 1086-19-WABI-68
Slick Streets Cause Rash of Skidding Mishaps
No description available
4) 1191 cat. 1088-02-WABI-68
Two Car Head on Crash on Finson Road
No description available
20) 1191 cat. 1090-20-WABI-68
Car Towing Accident on Stillwater Avenue
No description available
19) 1191 cat. 1093-05-WABI-68
Freight Train Derailment at Kingman
No description available
7) 1191 cat. 1093-06-WABI-68
Etna Car Crash Off Interstate 95
No description available
17) 1191 cat.1095-15-WABI-68
Kingman Derailment Caused by Burned-Off Journal
No description available
27) 1191 cat. 1096-27-WABI-68
Foreign Model Car in Orrington Stream
No description available
10) 1191 cat. 1097-08-WABI-68
Volkswagen Flips Over on Interstate
No description available
7) 1191 cat. 1097-19-WABI-68
One Car Accident at Six Mile Falls
No description available
13) 1191 cat. 1100-24-WABI-68
[Bangor Drownings]
Two Bangor children drown in Union Street pool; emergency crew drains and drags pool at night; pumps used to drain water; footage before and after recovery of the bodies; body w...
26) 1191 cat. 1103-04-WABI-68
Corvair Flips Off Interstate 95
No description available
16) 1191 cat. 1110-09-WABI-68
Two Trailer-Trucks Off Interstate at Fairfield
No description available
31) 1206.0005
[Laurence Bray--home movies] Reel 5
Family. House. Cars. Cat. Boat named Bowdoin [Schooner Bowdoin](?). Women and man with goats outside barn. Dalmatian. Chickens. Boston terrier. Fishing. View of water from boat....
26) 1327.0014
[Whipple--home movies] Reel 14
Reel 14: Ice harvesting. Ice being moved onto conveyor belt. Men lined up with pick axes. CU machinery. Pan conveyor belt system. Hand pulled ice cutting machine. CU. Blades and...
17) 1878.001
Just One Night
Documentary about Tom Boyle, who speaks to students about drunk driving, following his own car accident.
18) 2290.0158
[Highway Accident]
Label: '93 Accident Newscopter. 10/18/94-1717.' // Aerial footage of highway accident, likely on Interstate 93.
20) 2298.0020
[Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 20
Date from edge code on film. // Box label: 'Accidents. Town Meeting.' Note in can: 'Car Accidents. Manley Wrecker. Fire Truck at Town Meeting. 1950?' Men clear trees around w...
4) 2298.0038
[Milton Dowe--home movies] Reel 4
Date estimate based from edge codes on film - may be 1937-1938 or 1947-1948, see inspection sheet. // Label on reel: 'Palermo in [?] Meet. Canoe Trip.' // Footage from canoe on ...
4) 18350
Tractor Trailer Plungers Into Sebasticook River
No description available
1) 18889
Warden Service Plane Falls through Stillwater Ice
No description available
87) 19407
Pleasant Hill Dairy Truck Crash on Rt. 2
No description available
18) 19445
Airman Killed In Argyle Crash
No description available
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